Theresa Beilschmidt, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany Benjamin Bruce, Sciences Po Paris, France Patrick Loobuyck, University of Antwerp, Belgium Erik Love, Dickinson College, US Abida Malik, University of Nottingham, UK Petra Meier, University of Antwerp, Belgium Habil. Agata S. Nalborczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland Ludger Pries, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Egd?nas Ra?ius, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Monika Ryszewska, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland Ferhan Tunagür Rutgers University, US Tülay Tuncer-Zengingül, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Ahmet Yükleyen, University of Mississippi, US

• 1. Multidisciplinary Research on Islamic Organizations: Heterogeneous Organizational Forms, Strategies, and Practices; Kerstin Rosenow-Williams and Matthias Kortmann PART I: DIFFERENT FORMS OF ORGANIZATIONS 2. Islamic Organizations in Poland: From Monopoly to Pluralism; Agata S. Nalborczyk and Monika Ryszewska 3. Civil Liberties or Civil Rights? Muslim American Advocacy Organizations; Erik Love 4. Divided or Conquered: The Challenges of Organizational Life for Muslims in the United Kingdom and Spain; Justin Gest PART II: DIFFERENT RESPONSE STRATEGIES TO ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS 5. The Impact of Public Debates on Muslim Representatives in Western Europe: The Agenda Setting Function of Mass Media; Maarten Koomen and Anja van Heelsum 6. Negotiating the Visibility of Islam in Switzerland: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Conflicts Involved with Building Projects for Mosques; Sarah Beyeler 7. Islamic Organizations in the Baltic States: Commonalities and Differences; Edgunas Ra?ius 8. Not Quite In, Not Quite Out: Islamic Organizations in France and Germany and Their Ties to Their States of Origin; Benjamin Bruce 9. Neither Omnipotent nor a Paper Tiger: The Alevi Community in Germany (AABF) and the Dynamics of Its Multidimensional Area of Activity; Ludger Pries and Tulay Tuncer-Zengingul PART III: DIFFERENT PRACTICES WITHIN THE ORGANIZATIONS 10. Imams in Flanders, Belgium: Toward the First Flemish Imams; Patrick Loobuyck and Petra Meier 11. Religious Practices of DITIB Mosque Community Members: Perspectives from Germany; Theresa Beilschmidt 12. Identities, Islamophobia, and the State: Diverse Perspectives and Experiences of Muslim Civic Actors from Islamic Organizations in the UK; Abida Malik 13. The Gulen Movement in Western Europe and the United States; Ahmet Yukleyen and Ferhan Tunagur CONCLUSION 14. Commonalities and Differences of Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USA; Matthias Kortmann and Kerstin Rosenow-Williams